Vietnam aims to reduce the rate of poor households by 1-1.5 percent each year under the updated standards of poverty between 2016 and 2020, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

Japan’s foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has increased ten-fold, while its two-way trade with the bloc has risen 2.4 times over the past ten years.

The European Union (EU) has renewed its commitment to supporting Vietnam’s multi-dimensional transitional process, as evidenced by its increase of non-refundable aid from 300 million EUR to 400 million EUR for 2014-2020 despite the austerity context in the continent.

The European Union (EU) has renewed its commitment to supporting Vietnam’s multi-dimensional transitional process, as evidenced by its increase of non-refundable aid from 300 million EUR to 400 million EUR for 2014-2020 despite the austerity context in the continent.

Viet Nam hopes to further deepen its friendship and multi-dimensional co-operation with Japan, and considers doing so one of its top foreign affairs priorities, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai yesterday told Katayama Satsuki, chairwoman of the Japanese Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence.

Poverty rates in mountainous and ethnic regions were reduced by 2-4 percent last year, with most rapid decreases seen in the northern provinces of Ha Giang, Yen Bai, and Son La, and the southern Soc Trang, it was reported at a conference in Hanoi on January 14.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, with the collaboration and support of the United Nations, has launched a national Zero Hunger Challenge, a major initiative to eradicate hunger in the country by 2025.